[Asis-l] CFP Eight SIGIR’17 Workshops on emerging areas in IR

Sun Mar 26 16:58:11 EDT 2017

Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, 
With pleasure we invite you to participate, submit an Abstract and/or organize and chair an Invited Session (4-6 talks) or address an invited talk in the forthcoming Conference in Limerick, Ireland ((23-26 May 2017) for the 9th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2017,  http://www.isast.org) which is organized under the umbrella of ISAST (International Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology). 
If you already have submitted your contribution ignore this message. However, please note that the early bird registration is approaching (30 March 2017).
This is the ninth year of the conference which brings together different disciplines on library and information science; it is a multi–disciplinary conference that covers the Library and Information Science topics in conjunction to other disciplines (e.g. big data, open data and open source, innovation and technological transfer, management and marketing, statistics and data analysis, information technology, human resources, museums, archives, special librarianship, etc). 
The conference invites special and contributed sessions, oral communications, workshops and posters.
Target Group
The target group and the audience are library professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers, information scientists, librarians, records managers, web developers, IT specialists, taxonomists, statisticians, marketing managers, philologist, subject and reference librarians et al.
Main topics
The emphasis is given to the models and the initiatives focus on the  Data. 
The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes:
1.	Data Mining, content analysis, taxonomies, ontologies
2.	Open Data, Open Access, Analysis and Applications 
3.	Big Data and its Management
4.	Information Ethics 
5.	Information and Knowledge Management
6.	Synergies, Organizational Models and Information Systems 
7.	Multimedia Systems and Applications 
8.	Computer Networks and Social Networks, 
9.	Health Reference and Informatics 
10.	Information Technologies in Education 
11.	Decision making in service innovation 
12.	STM information development
Special Sessions – Workshops
You may send proposals for Special Saessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at:  secretar at isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html 
You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html 
Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways 
a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; 
b. full papers (not exceeding 9,000 words);
c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words);

In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. 
Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/. 
The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ 
All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s).
Student submissions
Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations.
Post Graduate Student sessions for research are especially organized.
Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2017 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar at isast.org  
Important dates:
Deadline of abstracts submitted: 20 December 2016
Reviewer’s response: in 3 weeks after submission
Early registration: 30th of March 2017
Paper and Presentation Slides: 1st of May 2017
Conference dates: 23-26 May 2017
Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. 
QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).
Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar at isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions.
For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar at isast.org 
Looking forward to welcoming you in Limerick,
With our best regards,
On behalf of the Conference Committee 
Anthi Katsirikou, PhD
Conference Co-Chair
University of Piraeus Library Director
Head, European Documentation Center
Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals
anthi at asmda.com

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See you in Limerick, 
Kind regards, 
Anthi Katsirikou (Ms)
Librarian, PhD, MSc
QQML Conference co-chair
Director, University of Piraeus Library
Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece

Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals
IFLA Member
ALA/ ACRL Member 
http://www.isast.org
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Subject: [Asis-l] CFP Eight SIGIR’17 Workshops on emerging areas in IR

The workshop program of the 

   SIGIR’17: 40th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, 
   Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017
   http://sigir.org/sigir2017/

will host eight attractive workshops covering novel ideas and emerging areas in IR and beyond:

* ATIR’17: Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks 

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/ATIR.html

This is the first workshop on the emerging interdisciplinary research area of applying axiomatic thinking to information retrieval (IR) and related tasks. The ATIR workshop aims to help foster collaboration of researchers working on different perspectives of axiomatic thinking and encourage discussion and research on general methodological issues related to applying axiomatic thinking to IR and related tasks.

Enrique Amigo (UNED) 
Hui Fang (University of Delaware)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

* BIRNDL’17: Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/birndl-sigir2017/

The second BIRNDL workshop stimulates IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, text mining and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. The workshop incorporates the third edition of the Computational Linguistics Scientific Summarization Shared Task.

Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran (National University of Singapore)
Kokil Jaidka (University of Pennsylvania)
Philipp Mayr (GESIS)

* CAIR’17: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval

https://sites.google.com/view/cair-ws

Recent advances in commercial conversational services that allow naturally spoken and typed interaction, particularly for well-formulated questions and commands, have increased the need for more human-centric interactions in information retrieval. The CAIR workshop brings together academic and industrial researchers to create a forum for research on conversational approaches to search. A specific focus is on techniques that support complex and multi-turn user-machine dialogues for information access and retrieval, and multi-model interfaces for interacting with such systems. 

Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Lawrence Cavedon (RMIT University)
Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
Filip Radlinski (Google)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)

* ECOM’17: eCommerce

http://sigir-ecom.weebly.com/

The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce serves as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval and NLP research & their applications in the domain of eCommerce. We bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce.  

Jon Degenhardt (eBay)
Surya Kallumadi (Kansas State University)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Luo Si (Alibaba)
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago)
Xu Yinghui (Taobao) 

* KG4IR’17: Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis

https://kg4ir.github.io

Large, publicly available knowledge graphs have given rise to many successful improvements on traditional information retrieval tasks such as ad hoc document retrieval.  We focus on the end-to-end utilization of knowledge graphs and semantics in text retrieval and other IR-related applications.  Our scope covers the acquisition, the alignment, and the utilization of knowledge graphs and semantic resources for the purpose of optimizing end-to-end performance of a system that responds to a user's information need. Examples of such technologies and applications include entity ranking, entity linking, entity-based retrieval models, entity recommendation, document filtering, knowledge graph population, and more.

Laura Dietz (University of New Hampshire)
Edgar Meij (Bloomberg)
Chenyan Xiong (Carnegie Mellon University)

* LIARR’17: Lucene for Information Access and Retrieval Research

https://liarr2017.github.io/

The LIARR workshop brings together the community of researchers using Lucene, and its derivatives like Solr and Elasticsearch, and develop tools for IR research. There are three goals: First, create a development plan and common codebase for IR research with Lucene.  Second, implement various information retrieval methods in Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch,  Third, evaluate the quality of such methods and models.  LIARR is not a traditional “mini conference”-style workshop but rather it is a hackathon for attendees to actually work with Lucene in a hands-on capacity. Presentations are meant as a tool for structuring and guiding the efforts of attendees. Hence, the workshop motto of: less yaking, more hacking.

Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde)
Grant Ingersoll (Lucidworks)
Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)
Yashar Moshfeghi (University of Glasgow)
Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)

* Neu-IR’17: Neural Information Retrieval

http://neu-ir.weebly.com

The Neu-IR workshop brings the neural IR community together to specifically address key challenges facing this line of research. The workshop requests the community to submit proposals on generating large scale benchmark collections, building a shared model repository, and standardizing frameworks appropriate for evaluating deep neural network models. In addition, the workshop provides a forum for the growing community of IR researchers to present their recent (published and unpublished) work involving (shallow or deep) neural network based approaches in an interactive poster session.

Nick Craswell (Microsoft)
W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Jiafeng Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Bhaskar Mitra (Microsoft)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)

* OKBQA’17: Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering 

The Second OKBQA Workshop aims to join forces in the collaborative development of open frameworks for knowledge extraction and question answering, to share standards, and to foster the creation of an ecosystem of tools and benchmarks. Specific topics include natural language interfaces for the Web of Data and the construction of knowledge bases for question answering. 

Key-Sun Choi (KAIST)
Teruko Mitamura (CMU)
Jin-Dong Kim (DBCLS)
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (University of Leipzig)
Piek Vossen (VU Amsterdam)

Please look at the individual websites for the calls, and deadlines — and participate in the discussion on the SIGIR’17 workshop day, on Friday August 11, 2017, in the beautiful scenery of Tokyo, Japan.

See You in Tokyo!
東京で会いましょう！
Tōkyō de aimashou!

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